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thanks for the reply, but in this case i want the table names to be framed up automatically by oracle, as there might be many tables also at times.

any other alternates much appreciated.

You can't directly select from a table without knowing the name of the table. You can use dynamic sql to create a query if you have a table that stores all of the tables you want to select from, you can also concatenate a bunch of stuff together and create a cursor to select from. how do you know what tables you want in the select?